The goal
An infrastructure without service-level degradation
Business continuity and recovery is vital to business success. It can no longer remain the concern of the IT department alone. How do you determine the requirements of your business? How do you identify and integrate critical business and IT priorities into a comprehensive continuity program? Depending on your requirements, we can help you gain virtually uninterrupted availability of your IT infrastructure and critical business applications.
The advantage
Maintain business continuity
IBM can help your organization plan, develop, implement and manage a comprehensive, integrated business continuity plan for high availability and recovery.
We can help you identify your business risks and the impact each risk would have on your business. We will assess how your current systems would handle identified risks. Once the assessments are complete, we can help you to design, develop and implement a comprehensive roadmap, specific to your criteria, for resilient infrastructure architecture.
Continuous application and process availability, along with data consistency are critical to your organization's operations and success. An effective plan, coupled with the implementation of a robust IT infrastructure, can protect your business operations. Avoid disruptions in your business. Our solution can address your availability requirements, keep your applications running and safeguard your data.
We can also help you automate your systems and network availability management with IBM Tivoli® Systems Automation or Tivoli NetView®.
Data protection and recovery can be enhanced through IBM TotalStorage® solutions for business continuity, as well as hosting solutions for backup and recovery. Our solution leverages self-managing autonomic technology and best-practice experience to provide sense-and-respond resilience with reduced management complexity.
And finally, IBM Geographically Dispersed Parallel Sysplex™ can help automate recovery procedures for planned and unplanned outages, to provide near-continuous availability and disaster recovery capabilities.
The benefits
Avoid risk while gaining flexibility and availability
According to Meta Research, a study conducted in February 2005 found that:
- Only about 50% of firms have a comprehensive business continuity plan.
- Half of firms without a continuity plan will have damaged their competitiveness in case of a disaster.
- 43% of firms that suffer a massive data loss will never re-open.
But our innovative business continuity infrastructure solution can help you minimize downtime, streamline recovery and simplify workload, data and systems management with:
- Flexibility. Your IT infrastructure should be modular, easy to modify, and closely aligned to the unique objectives of your business, while leveraging your existing investments. This knocks down silos, quickens response times and helps you move faster to drive innovation throughout the organization.
- Availability. Even a few moments of downtime can hurt your business. We can help you create and implement continuity plans so that your organization can continue to work in the face of an unanticipated service disruption.
